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' EDSON L. BRYANT, OF ANSONIA, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO WALLACE 8c SONS, OF SAME PLACE.

HANGING LAMP.

SPECIFICATION .forming part of Letters Patent No. 259,087, dated June 6, 1882.

I Application led March 25, 1882, (No'model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDsoN L. BRYANT, of Ansonia,in the county of N ew Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Hanging Lamps; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of `this specification, and represent, in-

Figure 1, a sectional face view; Figs. 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, detached views enlarged.

This invention relates to an improvement in that class of lamp-holders designed to suspend the lamp from the ceiling, commonly called harp burners,77 becauseof their peculiarshape, and such as are usually suspended by weight or otherwise, so as to be adjusted to different elevations. Heretofore these fixtures have been made from cast metal, usually cast-iron, because they are of the cheaper class of xtures.

In such construction the surfaces are necessarily rough and the ornamentation must be of a coarse character. To obvia-te these unsightly qualities of the fixture they have been made with wire connections from the lampholder to the shade-ring above; but such wire connections are necessarily plain,without ornamentation, and too light to give the appearance of stability desirable in such fixtures.

The object of my invention is to produce the fixture from sheet metal in such manner that the extra cost of sheet metal over common cast-iron is more than counterbalanced by the y saving of labor in the construction of the device; and it consists in the construction of a fixture from sheet metal, as more fully hereinafter described, and particularly recited in the claims. Y

A represents the lamp-support, which is of usual cup shape, struck from sheet metal; B, the shade-ring; C C, the side connections between the lamp-holder and shade-ring. These connections are cut from sheet metal by dies, and maybe of any desirable ornamental shape, one shown detached in face view, Fig. 5, and in edge view, Fig. 6. l

' The surface may be ornamented by swaging dies to any desired extent, the sheetmetal surface forming all the nish that is required, which may be plated or otherwise ornamented. The surface will be always smooth and` finished, easily cleaned, and stronger than cast metal.

At the lower end of the connections C, and at their junction with the lamp-holder, studs or projections a are formed as a part of the connections-that is to say, they are cut on the lower end of the connections, like tenonsand in the edge of the holder A corresponding apertures or mortises are cut, through which the studs a extend, and are riveted upon the inside, which makes a firm union between the connections C andthe holder A. The upper ends of the connections have a similar stud, d, cut therein, which extends through the iianges in the ring B, and perforated for the attachment of the chains or cords by which the iixture is to be suspended.

In order that the riveting of the studs a upon-the inside shall not make a projection upon the inner surface which will interfere with the proper introduction of the lamp-fount, I strike a vertical recess, c, in the side of the cup and in line with the lower end of the connections C, and make the openings for the studs into that recess, vas seen in Fig. 8.

Asafurtherstrengtheningbetweenthelampholder A and the connections C, I turn a han ge, f, from the upper edge of the holder A outward, and cut a radial slot,'h, therein, as seen in Fig. et, corresponding to the thickness of the connection C, and into which the connections pass to bring the studs a into the perforations in the side of the holder. This extension from the holder out onto the -arm's insures the bringing of the connections into the same plane and prevents `the possibility of their being bent out of that plane.

The holder A is struck from'sheet metal, as is also the ring B, thus making the entire fixture from sheet metal,'the surface of which may be ornamented by striking them in ornamenting-dies. The iixtureis very much stronger than the common cast-iron construction, lighter and neater in its appearance, and costslittle, if any, more.

l claiml. Ahanging-lamp fixture consisting of the lmnp-holder A und the connections G, the said connections constructed from sheet metal cut with studs or projections c to pass through corresponding` holes in the lztmp-holder und serve as rivets for securing the two parts together, the said connections also secured to the shade-ring above, substantially as described.

2. The'lalnp-holder A, constructed with the vertical recesses e upon its inside, and the connections C, constructed with studs a, extending through corresponding perforutions in the holder :nd into the recesses c und there riveted, substantially as described.

3. The lamp-holder A, constructed With the tlengesf and radial slots h therein, and the sheet-metal connections C, set into the slots h and secured to the holder, substantially as described.

EDSON L. BRYANT.

Witnesses:

F. L. GAYLORD, T. J. WOOD. 

